Tourism Week climaxed last Saturday with a festive street parade held to celebrate persons who work in the island’s main income earning industry, tourism.
Around 1, 000 workers, outfitted in bright orange t-shirts, joined dancers, stilt walkers, cheerleaders and children decked in colourful costumes, to party to soca music blaring from trucks.
Elegant Hotels Group Plc (LON:EHG) owns and operates seven luxury freehold hotels and a beachfront restaurant, Daphne’s, on the island of Barbados. The Group’s portfolio currently comprises 588 rooms, making it twice as large (by room number) as the closest competitor in the Barbados luxury hotel room market. Six of the seven properties are situated along the prestigious west coast of Barbados commonly known as the “Platinum Coast”. The properties are all freehold, with a total aggregate plot size of approximately 23 acres and an aggregate beachfront of 2,600 feet.
